Summer is getting closer, and riding is taking me into higher and higher elevations. I have to remember to take the camera more often.

Yesterday I got out for a quick ride; I wanted to explore a bunch of roads that are nearby (within 10 miles of the house as the crow flies)... places that I hadn't been. Gotta get out on the ground to see if some of these routes actually "go". Some did, some didn't. Now I know.

I'd never been to this old mine before, either. Fixer upper:

It's furnished!

more in a minute...

__________________"What these people need is some mental psychology."-Bonnie Abbzug

Then a quick run down Railroad Gulch- this was once the Turret Line, which ran from Browns Canyon up to the Turret gold fields. It was the country's steepest non-Cog railway- they had special narrow gauge engines built with the boilers mounted at an angle so they wouldn't run dry on the steep grades. It's an out and back now- you can ride down until the rail bed is washed out too much to continue:

So that was my day. I explored all kinds of routes I hadn't checked out before- some of them turned out to be dead ends, but now I know.

__________________"What these people need is some mental psychology."-Bonnie Abbzug